Places Walkonair Wants to Go

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

A factory store where more than 150 years of American pottery history is stacked—and still made just beyond the showroom.

A monument marks the location of the first successful steamboat demonstration.

A museum dedicated to the legend of Bigfoot in the Appalachian Mountains.

Winding country roads in eastern West Virginia lead to an extraordinary place populated by fiberglass giants.

Spectacular mineral formations fill these caves, which have been used for everything from smoking meat to stashing illicit liquor.

Home of a 28-foot tall stalagmite known as the War Club.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

Prehistoric animals decorate this popular outdoor park.

The world's longest known cave system.

A comprehensive visual archive of Braun products. A German national treasure of modern design.

This plaque, dedicated to a fallen journeyman carpenter, is filled with errors and mystery

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A miniature train theme park, free to the public, laying at the base of the Santa Monica Mountains.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.